Muhammad Yamin Khan

Muhammad Yamin Khan was an Indian bar-at-law, statesman and politician in the period before the Partition of India. Khan served as a parliamentarian and one of the senior most members of the All India Muslim League. An ethnic Kamboh, Khan was a close relative of the Kamboh Nawabs of Meerut.

Muhammad Yamin Khan was a close confidant of Quaid-e-Azam. He was a member of the working committee of All India Muslim League. He also remained Deputy President of the Indian legislative Council. He also presided over the third "Kamboh Conference" held in Bareilly in 1936.

The British Government recognized him for his outstanding social and legal services and conferred upon him the titles of "Sir" and "Nawab".^[when?]

After partition of India in 1947, Khan moved with his family to Karachi, Pakistan where he soon died.

Muhammad Yamin Khan was the second Kamboj member to be knighted, and also was the second Kamboj member of the Indian Parliament (M.P.).^[1] He had also been a member of the Municipal Board of Meerut since 1918 and served it as Vice-Chairman & Chairman for a long time. The Chairmanship of the Meerut Municipal Board remained for the first half century of its existence with the Nawab family of the Meerut Kambohs.^[2][3]

His brother Chaudhury Muhammad Yamin Khan was also a highly educated person and a prominent Judge of pre-independence days.

References

1. ^ Tarikh-i-Qaum Kamboh, 1996, p 385, Chaudhry Muhammad Yusuf Hasan.
2. ^ Leadership and Local Politics: A Study of Meerut District in Uttar Pradesh, 1923-1973, 1979, p 43, Shree Nagesh Jha; Urban Politics in India, 1987, p 69, Mohamed Ahmad Hussain.
3. ^ Tarikh-i-Qaum Kamboh, 1996, p 385, Chaudhry Muhammad Yusuf Hasan

See also

• Kamboj in Muslim and British Era
• Former Muslim Kambohs of Meerut
• Nawab Sir Ziauddin Ahmad
• Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh

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Name	Khan, Muhammad Yamin
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Short description	Member of Parliament
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death	Karachi, Pakistan